Events Including Clock Tower Unveiling Ceremony Held One Year Before Opening
Jin Jae-su, Head of the Operation Promotion Team of the 2023 Gangneung World Choir Competition Organizing Committee, is giving a briefing on the D-1 year commemorative event at the Government Seoul Office briefing room on the 28th. Photo by Yonhap News
[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Heeyoon] The Gangneung World Choir Games, scheduled to be held in July next year, will begin full-scale pre-events one year before the event.
On the 28th, the Organizing Committee for the 2023 Gangneung World Choir Games announced that on the 4th of next month, a '2023 Gangneung World Choir Games D-1 Year Commemoration Event' will be held throughout Gangneung.
The committee will launch an advisory group composed of about 80 conductors from major choirs nationwide. Following this, a clock tower unveiling ceremony counting down to D-1 year of the event will take place at the central square of Gyeongpo Beach. The handover ceremony of the World Choir Games flag and the LED torch lighting ceremony will also be held together.
Additionally, the Gangwon Provincial Dance Company, Gangneung City Choir, and 'Harmonize,' a Korean choir that won gold medals in the pop ensemble category at the 2016 and 2018 World Choir Games, will perform on the congratulatory stage.
The World Choir Games, organized by the German Interkultur Foundation, is the world's largest choral festival. It first began in 2000 in Linz, Austria, and has continued since then.
The event is held every two years, with about 20,000 participants from 60 to 90 countries each time.
Gangneung City was confirmed as the host city for the 12th World Choir Games in April 2020. The event was originally scheduled for this year but was postponed by one year in March due to the impact of COVID-19.
The event dates are July 3 to 13 next year. Typically, about 400 teams from 75 countries have participated in the World Choir Games. The organizing committee expects approximately 25,000 visitors to Gangneung for next year’s event.
Jin Jaesoo, head of the 2023 Gangneung World Choir Games Operation Promotion Team, said at a press briefing held at the government Seoul office annex on the same day, "This event will deliver a message of hope to global citizens and local residents who have suffered from COVID-19," adding, "We will operate it as a symbolic event signaling the safe recovery of daily life."
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